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Kalpana Chawla was born on 17th March, 1 962 in Karnal. She did her B.E. in Aeronautical Engineering at Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh in 1982. She finished her Masters from University of Texas in 1984. She did another masters and then a Ph.D from University of Colorado.
In 1988, she started working at NASA Ames Research Centre as Vice-President of Overset Methods. She researched on fluid dynamics of landing and take-off.
She held Flight Instructor and Pilot certifications also. She became a US citizen in 1991. So, she applied for NASA Astronaut Corps. She joined in 1995 and was selected for her first flight in 1996. In the weightlessness of space, she said :
“You are just your intelligence.”
She had covered 10.67 million km, which was equivalent to travelling around the Earth, 252 times. Her first space mission commenced on 19th November, 1997, as part of a six member crew aboard space shuttle Columbia. In this mission, she spent 372 hoars in space. She was assigned the task of deploying the Spartan Satellite.
After finishing this project, she assumed technical duties in the space station. Her work was lauded by her peers. In 2000, she was selected for her second flight, as part of the crew of STS 107. 16th January 2003, she and other members boarded the flight. She conducted some experiments studying Earth and space science, technology development and astronaut safety and health. Unfortunately, the shuttle disintegrated over Texas, while re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere on 1st February, 2003, with the loss of all seven members.